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As a starting point, the burning of fossil fuels, and to a lesser extent deforestation and release of methane are responsible for the warming in recent decades: Graph of temperature as observed with significant warming, and simulated without added greenhouse gases and other anthropogentic changes, which shows no significant warming

How much each change to the atmosphere has warmed the world: IPCC AR6 Figure 2 - Thee bar charts: first chart: how much each gas has warmed the world. About 1C of total warming. Second chart: about 1.5C of total warming from well-mixed greenhouse gases, offset by 0.4C of cooling from aerosols and negligible influence from changes to solar output, volcanoes, and internal variability. Third chart: about 1.25C of warming from CO2, 0.5C from methane, and a bunch more in small quantities from other gases. About 0.5C of cooling with large error bars from SO2.

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Trump Is Handing China a Golden Opportunity on Climate | Already a leader in clean tech, China may see a new reason to act as leader in addressing climate change, too. (www.theatlantic.com)
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[–] [email protected] 16 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (2 children)

If you count how pollution is consumed (where the product that created the pollution are consumed) instead of where is produced, the United States and Europe are still way on the top polluters.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

When you adjust for trade it still would be China, USA and then EU in terms of total emissions. In terms of per capita the US leads, but by now I am not sure if China or the EU has higher emissions. Europe is obviously worse though, as Russia is a massive polluter.

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/consumption-co2-emissions?tab=table&time=earliest..2021

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/consumption-co2-per-capita?tab=chart&country=CHN%7EOWID_EU27

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago

Can we stop counting Russia as part of Europe? The European continent is very arbitrary anyway.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

As others have mentioned, this doesn't actually change much. Something near 90% of Chinese emissions are to support Chinese consumption